"Snooze" wrote in message
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"Koi4Me" wrote in message
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The little koi and goldfish are doing well, and some are getting colors.
Some are "PINK." They were raised in green water and fed eggyolk the
first
week or so of their lives. I was told and read that baby brineshrimp
are
necessary to raise them - not true!

Obviously brine shrimp aren't necessary. Brine shrimp aren't exactly
common
in the waters where most pet fish are originally from, they're a common
food
for fry because of their size, convenient to hatch. In nature, fry live on
all kinds of native insects and microorganisms such as daphnia,
paramecium,
various worms, mosquito larva and algae plus all kinds of gnats and small
flying insects that fall into the water.

-S
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And they surely have many of these things in the sunny outdoor pools which
also contain a lot of pond plants. The pools are barely 5' south of the
forest edge which here in TN is insect and bug heaven. I tried brineshrimp
nauppli (sp?) when I was raising GF indoors a few years ago. It was an
expensive proposition and most eggs never hatched. The fry did poorly in
indoor tanks. Eggyolk added to the mess....... I'll never try that again.
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McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries
before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED.
Do not feed the trolls.
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